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// force certain pages to be refreshed every time. mark such pages with
// 'data-cache="never"'
//
jQuery('div').live('pagehide', function(event, ui){
var page = jQuery(event.target);
if(page.attr('data-cache') == 'never'){
page.remove();
};
});
@cowboy
cowboy / ba-smallwalker.js
Created May 5, 2011 21:27
Small Walker: A small and simple JavaScript DOM walker
/*!
* Small Walker - v0.1.1 - 5/5/2011
* http://benalman.com/
*
* Copyright (c) 2011 "Cowboy" Ben Alman
* Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
* http://benalman.com/about/license/
*/
// Walk the DOM, depth-first (HTML order). Inside the callback, `this` is the
@cowboy
cowboy / this-propagation.js
Created May 19, 2011 01:58
JavaScript: A few ways to work around the lack of `this` propagation in inner functions
var value = 'FAIL!!';
var obj = { value: 9000 };
// This is totally broken, because inner functions don't "inherit" the outer
// function's `this` value. Instead, their `this` value is the global object.
obj.broken = function() {
function addToValue(n) {
return this.value + n;
}
return addToValue(1);
@scottjehl
scottjehl / anchorinclude.js
Created May 20, 2011 17:04
Anchor-include Pattern
/*
* anchor-include pattern for already-functional links that work as a client-side include
* Copyright 2011, Scott Jehl, scottjehl.com
* Dual licensed under the MIT
* Idea from Scott Gonzalez
* to use, place attributes on an already-functional anchor pointing to content
* that should either replace, or insert before or after that anchor
* after the page has loaded
* Replace: <a href="..." data-replace="articles/latest/fragment">Latest Articles</a>
* Before: <a href="..." data-before="articles/latest/fragment">Latest Articles</a>
var circleCenterPt = new paper.Point(150, 300);
var circleRadius = 75;
var sineWaveLength = 300;
var cosineWaveLength = 300;
paper.setup($('canvas')[0]);
var sineWaveStep = sineWaveLength/360;
var cosineWaveStep = cosineWaveLength/360;
var angle = 0;
@jasonrudolph
jasonrudolph / git-branches-by-commit-date.sh
Created February 12, 2012 20:40
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r
@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 12, 2024 19:52
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@zenkay
zenkay / gist:3237860
Created August 2, 2012 15:19
Installation tips for RVM/Ruby on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Ruby, RVM and Mountain Lion

Key problems

Mountain Lion (10.8) has three main difference compared to Lion (10.7):

  • XCode 4.4 does not install Command Line Tools by default
  • X11 isn't available anymore
  • The installed version of OpenSSL has some bugs

How to work around

@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this: